Jaroslav Kubera

Jaroslav Kubera (16 February 1947-20 January 2020) was the Czech ODS Senator from Teplice from 19 November 2000 to 20 January 2020 and President of the Senate from 14 November 2018 to 20 January 2020.

Biography
Jaroslav Kubera was born in Louny, Czechoslovakia on 16 February 1947, and he worked for Sklo Union Teplic and Elektrosvit Teplice before joining the ODS party in 1992 and being elected Mayor of Teplice in 1994; he served until 2018. In 2000, he was elected Senator from Teplice, and he became known as a staunch conservative who was a mild Eurosceptic, a supporter of the market economy, a critic of government subsidies, an opponent of open immigration, and an opponent of government legislation of people's private lives (saying that a smoking ban would encourage the government to also outlaw being fat or having sex on Sundays). He died in Usti nad Labem in 2020 at the age of 72.